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| Just out of interest what broadband speeds does everone recieve. I'm on 2mb at the mo soon to be increased to 4mb. I heard some crazy stories about the Koreans getting 100mb but that seems a bit far fetched. This is a good test to check your speed. http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/
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| 5mbs down / 374kbs up - Time Warner cable The download speed is more than enough for me, but I would love to have more upload. If you're in the US, this is my favorite test: http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
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I'm on NTL cable.
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| AWESOME!!!111ONE Joined: Oct 4th, 2004 Last Online: December 29th, 2008 Location: Clarkson's House Posts: 3,684
Car: POWERR!!! Rep Power: 0 ![]() | I get 5000kb/sec download when I can find a fast enough server. ![]()
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| Its because all our telephone exchanges are archaic relics. Quite a lot of them can't even do the newer 10mb services. I'm so jealous of you all.
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| Joined: Mar 21st, 2006 Last Online: 12:18 AM Location: Southampton Posts: 6,217
Car: Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 TDI Slush box. Rep Power: 58 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 Meg rated - NTL as well |
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| Joined: Apr 20th, 2005 Last Online: December 31st, 2008 Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 24 Posts: 1,347
Rep Power: 18 ![]() ![]() | My service is theorectically 24m/bit down, but is more like 15-17m/bit in reality. |
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| Joined: Jun 30th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: NYC Posts: 3,088
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| I get (9mbyte/s) from a hong kong speed test site speedtest.com.hk my connection is supposed to be 100mbit
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kb = kilobits kB = kilobytes There are 8 bits in a byte. This is helpful: http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/ So a transfer rate of 2Mb/sec = 2048kb/sec or around 256 kB/sec (transfer rate your broswer shows) Bottom line: kB/sec is what your browser shows you when you're actually downloading a file. Mb/sec or kb/sec are usually what broadband companies advertise, and the numbers sound bigger that way ![]()
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| Evo-less | 2mb / 256kb Getting 4mb/4mb when i move in six weeks
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| 6000/640 kb/s (~750/80 kB/s) i hope to get 16000/800 this year ![]()
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| Captain Internet Joined: Dec 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Bahrain Age: 24 Posts: 2,425
Car: Audi TT '08 Rep Power: 164 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | NTL and BT are doing major upgrades, in the range of 8000 exchanges, many people I know already have 10mbit and get full use of that speed. (Swansea, Nottingham, Cardiff to name a few places) |
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| Joined: Mar 16th, 2005 Last Online: December 28th, 2007 Location: Philadelphia, USA Age: 28 Posts: 1,043
Car: 911, 328i, Golf, '71 Vespa Sprint Rep Power: 0 ![]() | here at work we have a 3 Mb/1.5 Mb connection, and a T1 for the phones. decent, not super fast, but decent. @ home i have a 3 Mb/768 Kb DSL connection. Used to have a 30 Mb/5 Mb fiber connection from Verizon, until i moved. actually got 30 Mb/s too! My Mac OS updates would download at roughly 3.5 MB/s sustained. When i was in Uni, i would always use Apple's servers as the benchmark - they seem to have unlimited throughput-I could sustain about 8 MB/s from apple in Uni (dual-OC3 and multiple T3's) they now have about a steady 400 Mb/s of data constantly flowing in and out (combined)!!! http://www.rit.edu/network/mrtg-inet/internetall.html |
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| Global Moderator | Theoretically my transfer is 5mbit / 2mbit, but at the moment i'm getting 1mbit / 512kbit. Usually its around 3mbit / 1mbit. My cable company isn't terrific, but hopefully Verizon will finish running fiber in my area, and i'll hopefully be able to get Fios.
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